This all started when Geohot announced on Twitter that he was going out to buy a Windows Phone 7 (for obvious reasons). Then Brandon Watson – listed on Twitter as an “Entrepreneur on loan to Microsoft focused on getting our developer mojo back” – put out a message that basically said, ‘put your money away, son’:

“#geohot if you want to build cool stuff on #wp7, send me email and the team will give you a phone – let dev creativity flourish #wp7dev”

George Hotz aka Geohotz

This is the sort of thing, and more or less the attitude, that takes a stab at Apple with their commitment to closed systems and honestly it’s a pretty cool approach while Microsoft’s rival Sony is getting all hyper with various court cases.